The endocrine system glands and hormones that are released from them influence our entire body. It helps to regulate everyday things in our bodies, including the regulation of our mood, growth and development, tissue function, metabolism, sexual function and reproductive processes. The endocrine system is in charge of the body processes that happen slowly, including cell growth whereas the nervous system controls much quicker processes.
The nervous system is required throughout the entire day, every day. There are three types of neurons, interneurons, motor neurons, and sensory neurons which help the body function properly, be able to breathe, feel pain and other sensations as well as to move.These two systems work together in order to keep the human body functioning properly. Without them functioning in sync together or properly, many problems can occur within the body. The nervous system controls the endocrine system, and without the endocrine system, the nervous system may not have enough of a specific hormone or chemical needed in order to work properly together.
If the endocrine system has too many or not enough hormones, it can be very harmful to the body. This could also affect the development of nervous system neurons that help the body to move and to feel different sensations important to the body. If your neurons did not transport feelings or act as a bridge, the endocrine system would not receive proteins needed to function. The endocrine system produces hormones, and helps regulate mood, and if for example, the nervous system had stopped functioning properly with the endocrine system, your mood may not be able to be regulated properly. This could lead to major issues, including mood swings and major highs and lows. This is bad for your body because without this mood regulation, your body would not feel homeostasis, or balance.This is essential to proper function of your body also because your nervous system senses pain. Without this, your body can go through major “pains” without sensing or feeling them, or even the opposite, and not feel and pain, or not receive enough sensations to keep it active and responsive. This is bad because your body is used to feeling sensations and it is very abnormal not to feel anything. Without feeling anything, the neurons are not stimulated, and the nervous system is practically pointless at that point in time.
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